The building houses the Weslaco telephone exchange. GTE built it, and it passed to Verizon in 2000, to Frontier in 2016, and back to Verizon when Verizon bought Frontier in January 2026.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 13.75 miles | T-Mobile: McAllen |
T-Mobile's switching center on E Upas Avenue in McAllen, Texas, serves the Rio Grande Valley.
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| 14.91 miles | Smartcom: McAllen |
Smartcom Telephone runs its switch and a small colocation facility on Beech Avenue in McAllen, Texas.
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| 14.97 miles | Verizon: 701 Beech Ave, McAllen |
Verizon Business's network point of presence on Beech Avenue in McAllen, Texas, beside AT&T's central office.
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| 15.00 miles | AT&T: 721 Beech Ave, McAllen |
AT&T's main central office in McAllen, Texas, on Beech Avenue near the city's carrier cluster.
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| 15.10 miles | McAllen Carrier POP: 900 1/2 Beech Ave |
A carrier-neutral network point of presence on Beech Avenue in McAllen, Texas, near the city's cross-border carrier cluster.
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| 15.13 miles | Lumen McAllen 1 | |
| 15.23 miles | MDC McAllen Annex | |
| 15.23 miles | 1547: McAllen MCTX1 |
The Chase Tower is McAllen's main carrier hotel, a 17-story tower owned by 1547 Critical Systems Realty with more than 45 carriers, two meet-me rooms and the MCT-IX internet exchange.
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| 15.24 miles | MDC McAllen Chase |
MDC Data Centers' MCA1 suite in McAllen's Chase Tower carrier hotel, the original home of MDC's cross-border interconnection.
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| 18.06 miles | AT&T: 2068 N 77 Sunshine Strip, Harlingen |
AT&T's long-distance network building on the North 77 Sunshine Strip in Harlingen, Texas.
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| 18.74 miles | AT&T: 401 E Van Buren Ave, Harlingen |
AT&T's Harlingen central office houses the access tandem for the Rio Grande Valley.
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| 18.83 miles | Lumen Harlingen 1 |
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